Annoying Quotes - Page 12

• The art of flatterers is to take advantage of the foibles of the great, to foster their errors, and never to give advice which may annoy.

  Moliere

  Art, Errors, Giving

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• I became more courageous by doing the very things I needed to be courageous for-first, a little, and badly. Then, bit by bit, more and better. Being avidly-sometimes annoy-ingly-curious and persistent about discovering how others were doing what I wanted to do.

  Audre Lorde

  Firsts, Littles, Courageous

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• Some visualize the Pistols era in shades of black and white. It wasn't. Actually, the colors I envision are neon or army dirt green with fluorescent pink--anything that would annoy."

  John Lydon

  Black And White, Army, Color

  John Lydon, Keith Zimmerman, Kent Zimmerman (2014). “Rotten: No Irish, No Blacks, No Dogs”, p.113, Picador

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• It's not annoying if only a couple of people come up. If a bunch of them crowd around me, it's annoying.

  Brian Bonsall

  Couple, People, Crowds

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• In the human species at all events there is a great diversity of pleasures. The same things delight some men and annoy others, and things painful and disgusting to some are pleasant and attractive to others.

  Aristotle

  Men, Diversity, Events

  Aristotle (1934). “The Nicomachean ethics”

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• I was most confusedly in love. ... Even though I resolved not to think of him, his face would keep appearing between me and a book I tried to read, or his voice would suddenly sound instead of the words I tried to write on a page. ... I found love annoying and uncomfortable, like fetters, until I got used to it.

  Nora Waln

  Book, Writing, Thinking

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• I never got into things to be famous. Sometimes its fun, sometimes its annoying.

  Judah Friedlander

  Fun, Sometimes

  Interview with Novid Parsi, www.timeout.com. May 10, 2011.

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• Gratitude can sometimes be as annoying as whininess.

  Josh Lieb

  Gratitude, Sometimes

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• If you are going to do something that will annoy people, tell them about it afterwards; then they will only be annoyed that you have done it, and won't have all the exasperation of trying to stop you.

  Dorothy Cottrell

  People, Annoyed, Trying

  Dorothy Cottrell (1929). “The Singing Gold”

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• exercise will never be my lover. Or even my friend. For me, a workout is more like an annoying coworker I have to see a few times a week.

  Alissa Nutting

  Fitness, Workout, Exercise

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• Also ... the plan sounded exactly like the sneaky, twisted, ridiculously annoying and noble sort of thing Leo Valdez would do.

  Rick Riordan

  Noble, Sneaky, Twisted

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• I had a date with a girl I called the parrot. All she did was repeat everything I said. She never had an original thought of her own. Everything I liked, she liked. Everything I hated, she hated. It was annoying!

  Justin Chon

  Girl, Original Thought, Parrots

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• I do not cast my eyes away from my troubles. I pack them in
  as little compass as I can for myself, and never let them
  annoy others.

  Robert Southey

  Eye, Littles, Trouble

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• The only thing that really annoys me is when all of a sudden you hear yourself on the radio advertising Smith's tyre shop or Blenkinsop's jam. They simply can't do that. And in Australia, occasionally I have to take action.

  Richie Benaud

  Australia, Jam, Tyres

  Interview With Jim White, www.theguardian.com. August 5, 2001.

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• If I can avoid doing freelance work, I prefer to. Not just because it takes me away from drawing comics, but also because it's just annoying having to deal with art editors, and having to read people's articles or books or whatever.

  Chester Brown

  Art, Book, Editors

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• My mom let me kind of run free and be rowdy. She encouraged it. I'm a youngest child. So I was spazzy and trying to be funny to my older sisters. It's kind of my role in the family - tension reliever. I was funny or annoying, depending on your perspective.

  Andy Samberg

  Mom, Running, Children

  Source: www.hollywoodreporter.com

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• For a man who loves power, competition from the gods is annoying. I have done away with that. I have proven to these illusory godsthat a man, if he has the will, can practice, without any apprenticeship, their ridiculous trade.

  Albert Camus

  Power, Men, Practice

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• I'm always looking for sounds that are pleasing at the time. The sound of a helicopter is really annoying until you're drowning, and it's there to rescue you. Then it sounds like music.

  Tom Waits

  Art, Sound, Drowning

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• Whiffle [whine and wheeze and snuff and sniffle]: The annoying scratchy sound made by weepy feminists as they lament the sufferings of women and, houndlike, sniff out evidence of male oppression.

  Camille Paglia

  Feminist, Suffering, Feminism

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• I use two million Twitter followers as a tool. The reason I have Twitter is so people can get to know me as a different person other than Dwight. I just realized all of the sudden like everything thinks I'm Dwight. They think that I'm Dwight from the office and that I'm this kind of annoying, difficult, nerdy, creepy guy and they don't know Rainn Wilson - although I'm a little bit nerdy, annoying and creepy. I'm not as much as Dwight Schrute.

  Rainn Wilson

  Thinking, Two, Office

  Source: bigthink.com

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• It's annoying when you've got a guitar and you're working on music and then you have to go and do the shopping or someone calls your mobile and you get distracted or you have to go out and do something. So it's nice to just concentrate on it one hundred percent and give your all to it.

  Michael Kiwanuka

  Nice, Shopping, Guitar

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I liked Bugs Bunny. He was pretty good. He's annoying as a duck and he's anti-proletarian. Daffy Duck I couldn't see what was going on with him. He seemed like he was angry about something. My favorite one though is Pinocchio. I liked that kid. He was made of wood. I liked that for a start. I also liked how he'd tell a lie and his nose would grow. I liked the morality of that.

  Russell Brand

  Lying, Kids, Ducks

  The MoviesOnline Interview, www.moviesonline.ca. 2011.

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• We sometimes observe that spoiled children contract a habit of annoying quite wantonly those who have charge of them, and seem tomeasure their own sense of well-being, not by what they do, but by the degree of reaction they can cause. It is vain to get rid of them by not minding them: if purring and humming is not noticed, they squeal and screech; then if you chide and console them, they find the experiment succeeds, and they begin again. The child will sit in your arms contented if you do nothing. If you take a book and read, he commences hostile operations.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Children, Book, Arms

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.2955, Delphi Classics

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• Now this really annoys me: All these people getting on the Internet and saying Nostradamus predicted this. If Nostradamus were alive today his name would be Miss Cleo and he'd be charging $2.99 a minute.

  Jay Leno

  Names, People, Missing

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• A fool cannot be protected from his folly. If you attempt to do so, you will not only arouse his animosity but also you will be attempting to deprive him of whatever benefit he is capable of deriving from experience. Never attempt to teach a pig to sing; it wastes your time and annoys the pig.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Pigs, Benefits, Waste

  Time Enough for Love "Prelude II" (1973)

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